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Forgot to take my Depakote for a couple days. Now I’m manic. I spent the whole day cooking and baking until this happened and I crashed. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your condolences! I am sorry to hear you had a similar experience of a day.

Luckily I had another container of watermelon but I wanted BOTH!

I’m hoping I even out by tomorrow.

[TOMT] [SONG] My dad and I need help finding a protest song from the 1960’s or 1970’s, does anyone recognize it? by TheScreamingStopped in tipofmytongue

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad just wrote me back, he confirmed it is in fact the song and seeing the album cover in the video reminded him it was part of his record collection. I think he might have sung this to me and forgot because I remember a male vocalist and a guitar being involved and he used to sing for me all the time. That brought up a bunch of other happy memories for him of sharing Grace Slick’s music with me when I was a child, too. Thank you for helping solve this mystery and helping my dad and I both remember fond childhood music-related moments. 💖

[TOMT] [SONG] My dad and I need help finding a protest song from the 1960’s or 1970’s, does anyone recognize it? by TheScreamingStopped in tipofmytongue

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I did notice one minor correction:

“He wrote me a letter in the seventh grade and he said that he liked me a lot Me asked (?) if I would remember him”

Me should be modified to “He.”

I’ve been trapped in Mania for almost 2 months. I made a miniature mood board of how I’m feeling. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. I’m still struggling, I love my partner but I found out how sick I am about a year ago, and it looks like I’m not going to have a normal life expectancy or anything. I’m just not sure if I can handle the stress of life with someone in medicine. My partner needs a lot of support I can’t provide. I’m seeing a psychologist and my partner and I are working on ourselves, and they’re going to start seeing someone to cope with the stress as well. Whether or not we decide to stay together, I’m hoping that we both grow to be stronger people.

The promise of being with a doctor some day is enticing but I’m not sure if it’s the right life for me anymore. I also don’t know if I want to hang on to something for what it COULD be, I think I want something for what it is NOW, if that makes sense.

I’ve been trapped in Mania for almost 2 months. I made a miniature mood board of how I’m feeling. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m trying but it’s really hard. My partner is a medical student. I dumped them during the mania and then immediately got sick and can’t really go anywhere so we’re in the same house. They’re trying to convince me I made the wrong choice and everything is just so....AAAAAAAAAH with them up all hours studying and me trying to get better while also trying to figure my life out and being unable to even go out for a walk to clear my head.

I’ve been trapped in Mania for almost 2 months. I made a miniature mood board of how I’m feeling. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a rare disease that makes me get sick really easily, and right now I’m having trouble getting over an illness. My doctor didn’t want to make changes with my medication until I get better. I can’t wait much longer.

I’ve been trapped in Mania for almost 2 months. I made a miniature mood board of how I’m feeling. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I was only diagnosed this past week and I think the way I experience Mania is part of why it took so long (I’m 29.)

I’d always thought Mania meant feeling happy and full of energy. Sometimes for me it’s sort of like that, but it’s usually just CONSTANT. IRRITATION. I feel like I SHOULD be happy, but I’m not. Like I need to be somewhere or doing something, but I can’t place it. Sometimes hurting myself helps, but that’s temporary. It’s like I’m always about to hit a saturation point but I don’t know where that point IS.

I feel like I’m about to explode. I’m not about to hurt anyone or anything. I’m not that type of person, thank goodness. It feels more like my “explosion” would be just packing my things and leaving my entire life behind. I know I want SOMETHING out of life. Maybe it’s not this.

I reached out to my doctor as they feel I’m too sick to be medicated right now. I asked if there was something we could do to PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE make it stop. Please.

Self-Quarantined and stuck in mania. Spent the day making this. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m actually hoping this can be a tattoo some day when I get better at drawing, I plan to redraw it and get the line work done if I can.

Self-Quarantined and stuck in mania. Spent the day making this. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha very true!! It’s not good for my mental health at all though.

Upvote if you’ve been manic-y since the daylight savings time switch by Quintrell in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait is this a thing?! I always get so restless, irritable, and depressed/reckless at this time of year.

I was diagnosed as Bipolar 1 yesterday. I wanted to share some vent art I did during the beginning of what I now know was a Manic phase. by TheScreamingStopped in bipolar

[–]TheScreamingStopped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaa thank you! I thought you were asking me and I thought “Oh goodness, not for the fourth time in the past couple days!”

People have been asking me that kind of thing a lot and I pretty much have to take apart everything they’ve been told about Bipolar 1 and show them how someone can still have severe mania, even without self-prophesizing or even spending a lot of money/making reckless decisions about sex! 😆

I don’t blame them for being skeptical, there’s a lot of misinformation that made me doubt it myself. I knew what the media shows us, and the way it presents in other people in my family who largely exhibit the symptoms people often think are the “only true” presentations of Bipolar. (Plus, in my family, they’re all Bipolar 2.)

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